Tuesday, February 1, 2022

PowerShell to invoke Add Monitoring Wizard

PowerShell to invoke Add Monitoring Wizard

I am trying to use PowerShell to automate the steps of deploying and configuring our management pack.  Our manual process installs a template and then we select the Add Monitoring Wizard option to step through creation of the actual instance used for monitoring.

I've been able to decipher some of the SCOM PowerShell cmdlets to handle some of the other simple things, like creating a Run As account and associating a Run As account with a Profile. But I'm having difficulty determining which cmdlets to use that would perform the role of the Add Monitoring Wizard.

Does anyone have a sample I could use to try to build it out for my environment

Thanks.

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Issues Optimizing Workbook for Q&A

I have an Excel workbook with a functioning Power Pivot data model and two Power View dashboards.  The Power Pivot data model doesn't show any errors or issues when I am inside of Excel, it has been successfully updating its data on a daily basis using the Power BI Gateway, and I have even updated some of the Synonyms from within the workbook in preparation for loading it into the Power BI Q&A tool.  However, whenever I tell the Power BI site to "optimize" the workbook for Q&A, it comes back with the following error:

oops, something went wrong
Failed to get Modeling Metadata. The data model is invalid.
Error Code 200
Activity Id 97804846-faf9-418e-cb17-dc021d3974bc
Request Id db7a2c77-7ebd-323c-1385-7ad165c70317
Time Mon Aug 25 09:58:41 CDT 2014

I can't figure out where this keeps coming from, and there isn't much information out there about troubleshooting Q&A available just yet.


Reply:

Meg, is this still an issue?

Thanks!

Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Reply:

I just got this as well!

oops, something went wrong
Failed to get Modeling Metadata. The data model is invalid.

Error Code200
Activity Idb1127645-b1a3-7bd4-72f6-fec950658a3f
Request Idc98d9c6d-5343-f61c-63d1-33bb1001a7c2
TimeTue Oct 14 2014 15:41:33 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)


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Reply:

Does anyone have suggestions for Narius or Meg?

Thanks!

Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Is this still an issue?

Thanks!

Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:
It is still an issue for me. Is there a known resolution to this problem?

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Accounting for different skill levels?

Guys,

How would you account for different abilities when assigning resources to a task?

Say you had task 'Paint a Wall' which you knew would take 20 hours, an estimate based on an experienced painter and decorator. Ignoring other stuff say something like this:

  • 1x experienced  = 20 hours duration.
  • 2x experienced  = 10 hours duration
  • 4x experienced = 5 hours duration
  • 1x apprentice = 40 hours duration
  • 2x apprentice = 20 hours duration.

And you wanted to put 1x experienced and 1x apprentice on a job. I make it the duration should be 13.3 hours - the experienced painter doing more work than the apprentice.

How would you represent this in Project?

Thanks


Reply:

Rob-R,

Similar to my response to your other post, sometimes you can get down to just too much information. One way to approach the skill level question is to simply create resource groups, in your example, call it "painters" with no distinction of skill level. However, if you plan to assign only an experienced resource or only an apprentice resource to a given task then you might want to show those resources as separate skill levels and assign them accordingly.

John


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Basically in this example there's going to be a senior and junior dev working on it, and that's for all of the tasks within the project - quite which specific tasks on the WBS isn't known and (as per the other post) is outside the scope of a project plan really.

I guess all I'm looking to capture is that the 20h task with 1x senior and 1x junior will be done in 13.3 hours as opposed to 20h duration wise - as this will show me how long these 2 week and 1 month projects might get done in. Plus I'm running this off a resource pool so I want it to be clear that these resources are reserved so to speak.

I was going to drop the junior resource to 50%, I'm not sure if that's a sensible, or best practice way to achieve what I'm after though.


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I'm not sure how you derived the 13.3 hours. If it's 20 hours of work for the sr. developer (2.5 days duration) and 40 hours of work for the jr. developer (5 days duration), I'm not sure where you got the split.  I don't think it's accurate to say the jr. developer is 50% allocated to the task. It is actually more work for the jr developer, not less.  I'd suggest asking for work estimates (not duration estimates).  Then reflect the resource's availability to the project.  My guess is the Sr. Developer is the one who has less availability - s/he is in higher demand.  If the Sr. Developer is going to do 15 hours of the work and the jr. developer 10 hours, assign them at those values and let Project calculate duration.

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How I envisage this working in practice is that both would be working full time on the task until it is completed. So both would be working for an equal amount of time, however, the amount of work completed by the senior developer would be double that of the junior developer.

I have work estimates, but the issues is that all of the estimates are based on experienced developers. At this stage I'm dealing with an estimate at the macro level - so a group of 30 tasks might be 2 weeks dev for 1 experienced dev.

If I create a task, fixed work, add two resources, one developer at 100% and one developer at 50%. If I change the work to 20hours then the duration changes to 13.33 hours - so I guess that matches my post. With the senior dev at 90% (more realistic) that makes it 14.82 hours.

Whilst this may not be conventional - as the junior dev is 100% available, I can't see another option? - It's not like there's a work rate or effort coefficient that I can find (there may well be one though!)

Thanks for the replies.


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Rob-R --

Pardon me for bumping into this post.  When you assign the resources to the task, try this:

  1. Apply the Gantt Chart view.
  2. Right-click anywhere in the Gantt Chart pane and select the Show Split item on the shortcut menu.
  3. In the Task Form pane, select the names of the senior developer and junior developer resources.
  4. In the Task Form pane, enter a Units value of 100% for the senior developer and enter 40 hours of Work.
  5. In the Task Form pane, enter a Units value of 100% for the junior developer and 20 hours of Work.
  6. Click the OK button.

Microsoft Project will calculate the Duration of the task based on the longest duration of each resource working on the task.  In this case, the Duration would be 5 days, based on the duration of the senior developer's task assignment.  I believe this would meet your planning needs without becoming overly complicated.  Just a thought.  Hope this helps.

Dale A. Howard [MVP]


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Feel free to bump into this post Dale, all opinions and thoughts are most welcome :)

If I'm running this off a resource pool presumably the same could be achieved if I adjust the calendar for the resource to state that they can only work say 20 hours a week instead? - It sounds like that would do the same thing. A restriction I could lift when we deem them to be 'experienced' - or I could gradually increase over time.

It seems like this would do the same thing?


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Elevate to "Run as Administrator" for a single command

So I like to try to automate various tasks using powershell.  I also like to send the status and what is being accomplished to the application event log as it progresses.  That way I can run a powershell command and grab all the events fir that script from the log.

I do not want to have to pre-create the event source.  So in the beginning of the script I  am trying this code:

# Initialize source for Application Event Log
If ( -Not([System.Diagnostics.EventLog]::SourceExists('MyCurrentScript'))) 
    {
    New-EventLog -Source MyCurrentScript -LogName Application
    }

However even if I am running powershell as a user that is in the local administrators group it does not work.  I have to start powershell in the "Run as an Administrator" mode to execute the following code:

New-EventLog -Source MyCurrentScript -LogName Application

But then if I have to do a bunch of Active Director privileged tasks they fail.

So, how can I elevate to "Run as Administrator" for the one line???

Thank you,


  • Edited by Rayzavs1 Monday, June 8, 2015 8:28 PM Typo
  • Changed type Bill_Stewart Monday, July 13, 2015 3:33 PM

Reply:

The usual way is to start your PowerShell session elevated to begin with.

After it opens, run your script(s) that require elevation.

-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:

Bill,

How can you start as an administrator and have elevated privileges in Active Directory at the same time?

Can you provide and example?

Thank you,

Rayzavs


  • Edited by Rayzavs1 Monday, June 8, 2015 8:41 PM typo

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Right-click PowerShell icon, then click "Run as adminstrator" to run PowerShell elevated.

Hold Shift key, right-click the PowerShell icon, then click "Run as different user" to run PowerShell as a different user.

These are two different things.

-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Both those are fine.  They are well known.  So my understanding is that on script may be launched from another.  Can one Run that Script in an elevated mode?  Can you pass a parameter to it?  If so how?  Then I think we could create a function to create the event log source. Then I can place that second script, "Event log source creator" in a repository and just call that if the event log source does not exist.  Then any server I move a script to run on would be able to create it and neither I nor my Team would need to remember to do do this. 

I just find it hard to understand why even a domain admin account cannot create a new windows event log source.  I am not a good enough powershell script writer to do this.  It would seem that this would be a bit of a short fall of powershell if I cannot overcome this.  

Here is  a whole example of on of the scripts.  The charge was to find stale computer objects.  Report on the changes and the counts of Live OS's in A.D.  The concern for this script was that the policy dictated that the computer account be first disabled then moved to a "Disabled" OU.  After it was there for 30 days it could then be deleted.  The policy was formed that way to mitigate worries from the desktop team about overwhelming tickets related to deleted accounts.  So I wrote the following script.  It may not be the best written code ever but it works for us.  I just need a little help with that one piece

# Created by Rayzavs (6-5-2015)  # This script is to perform Maintenance on Active Directory Computer Objects.  # It Completes the Following Functions:  # 1) Creates an event log Source for the script if it does not exist. then Logs all steps in the application log.  # 2) Creates a report of the Counts of OS's in Active directory before it runs  # 3) Finds Stale Computer accounts by 90 days and disables said stale accounts.  # 4) Moves Accounts with Blank "LastLogonDates to OU=Blanks,OU=DisabledComputers, OU=Disabled, DC=NorwalkHealth,DC=org  # 5) Moves Stale Computer account to OU=DisabledComputers, OU=Disabled, DC=NorwalkHealth,DC=org  # 6) Creates a report of the Counts of OS's in Active directory After it runs.  # 7) Captures Log information from the script and emails summary to list of users  # Pre-Requisite: need to ha c:\Scripts folder or change paths; need to have edit LDap Paths for OU's to move Disabled Computers to (66 and 87).  # NOTES Custom Lines you will need to edit 14, 66, 87, 173    $EmailSmtpServer = "YourSMTPServer.mycorp.com"  $ComputersDisabledLog = ""  $EventMessage = ""    # Initialize source for Application Event Log  If ( -Not([System.Diagnostics.EventLog]::SourceExists('StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript')))    {   New-EventLog -Source StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript -LogName Application   }      # Note the start of Process in Event log  $EventMessage = "Started stale Computer account process: " + (get-date)   Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript -EntryType information -EventID 60001 -Message $EventMessage  $MailBody = ($EventMessage) + " `n "    # Reset Counters  $TCount = $CountXP = $Count2k = $win7 = $win2k3 = $win2k8 = $win2k12 = $win8 = $win10 = $CountBlank = 0      # create counts of Active Computers before changes  $ActiveComputers = Get-ADComputer -Property Name,lastLogonDate,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack -Filter *   ForEach ( $Computer in $ActiveComputers)  	{   if ($Computer.Enabled -eq $True)   {   Switch -Wildcard ($Computer.OperatingSystem)   {   "Windows XP*" {$CountXP = $CountXP + 1 }   "Windows 2000 Server" {$Count2k = $Count2k + 1}   "Windows 7*" {$win7 = $win7 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2003" {$win2k3 = $win2k3 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2008*" {$win2k8 = $win2k8 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2012*" {$win2k12 = $win2k12 + 1 }   "Windows 8*" {$win8 = $win8 + 1 }   "Windows 10*" {$win10 = $win10 + 1 }   $Null {$CountBlank = $CountBlank +1 }   }   $TCount = $TCount + 1   }   }  $ActiveBeforeCompTotal = "The Total # of Computer objects before running was " + ($TCount) + ". `nThere were a total of " + ($count) + " computers disabled!`n" + "There was " + ($CountXP) + " Windows XP, " + ($Count2k) + " Win2K server, " + ($win7) + " Windows 7, " + $win2k8 + " Windows 2008 server, " + $win2k3 + " Windows 2003 Server, " + $win2k12 + " Windows Server 2012, " + $win8 + " Windows 8, " + $win10 + " Windows 10, " + " and " + ($CountBlank) + "Blank Computers. `n `n `n"  $MailBody = ($MailBody) + $ActiveBeforeCompTotal + " `n "       # Set Stale limits  $then = (Get-Date).AddDays(-90) # The 90 is the number of days from today since the last logon.    # Reset counters  $Count = $TCount = $CountXP = $Count2k = $win7 = $win2k3 = $win2k8 = $win2k12 = $win8 = $win10 = $CountBlank = 0    # Set Move to location for Blank Computer accounts  $MoveToLocation = "OU=Blanks,OU=DisabledComputers, OU=Disabled, DC=MyCorp,DC=com"      # Checking for Blank lastlogonDate Computer accounts  $BlankComputers = Get-ADComputer -Property Name,lastLogonDate,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack -Filter *  foreach ($Computer in $BlankComputers)   	{   if ($Computer.LastLogonDate -eq $Null )   {   $ComputersDisabledLog = $ComputersDisabledLog + $Computer.Name + "`t" + $Computer.DistinguishedName + "`n"   # !!!!!!! Perform Disable and move of Blamk Acounts !!!!!!!!   Disable-ADAccount $Computer.distinguishedName   Move-ADObject $Computer.distinguishedName -TargetPath $MoveToLocation   $CountBlank = $CountBlank + 1   $Coount = $Count +1  	 }   	}         # Checking for Stale Computer Accounts   $MoveToLocation = "OU=DisabledComputers, OU=Disabled, DC=MyCorp,DC=com"  $StaleComputers = Get-ADComputer -Property Name,lastLogonDate,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack -Filter {lastLogonDate -lt $then}   foreach ($Computer in $StaleComputers)   	{   if ($Computer.Enabled -eq $True)   {   Switch -Wildcard ($Computer.OperatingSystem)   {   "Windows XP Professional" {$CountXP = $CountXP + 1 }   "Windows 2000 Server" {$Count2k = $Count2k + 1}   "Windows 7 Professional" {$win7 = $win7 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2003*" {$win2k3 = $win2k3 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2008*" {$win2k8 = $win2k8 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2012*" {$win2k12 = $win2k12 + 1 }   "Windows 8*" {$win8 = $win8 + 1 }   "Windows 10*" {$win10 = $win10 + 1 }   }   $ComputersDisabledLog = $ComputersDisabledLog + $Computer.Name + "`t" + $Computer.DistinguishedName + "`n"   # !!!!!!! Perform Disable and move of Stale Computer Accounts !!!!!!!!   Disable-ADAccount -Identity $Computer.DistinguishedName   Set-ADComputer -Identity $Computer.DistinguishedName -Description ("This account was disabled on " + (Get-Date) + " by the Automated Stale Computer Stript")   Move-ADObject $Computer.DistinguishedName -TargetPath $MoveToLocation   $Count = $Count + 1   }   }  # Building Event message and email Body  $DisabledCompTotal = "There were a total of " + ($count) + " computers disabled!`n" + "There was " + ($CountXP) + " Windows XP, " + ($Count2k) + " Win2K server, " + ($win7) + " Windows 7, " + $win2k8 + " Windows 2008 server, " + $win2k3 + " Windows 2003 Server, " + $win2k12 + " Windows Server 2012, " + $win8 + " Windows 8, " + $win10 + " Windows 10, " + " and " + ($CountBlank) + " Blank Computers that were disabled. `n The Disabled Combuterojects were moved to " + ($MoveToLocation) + "`n `n `n"  $MailBody = ($MailBody) + ($DisabledCompTotal)         # Note the Disable Results of Process in Event log  $EventMessage = ($DisabledCompTotal) + (get-date)   Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript -EntryType information -EventID 60001 -Message $EventMessage  # Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript -EntryType information -EventID 60001 -Message ("List of computers: " + " `n " + ($ComputersDisabledLog))      # Reset Counters  $TCount = $CountXP = $Count2k = $win7 = $win2k3 = $win2k8 = $win2k12 = $win8 = $win10 = $CountBlank = 0    # Active Computers after the changes  $ActiveComputers = Get-ADComputer -Property Name,lastLogonDate,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack -Filter *  ForEach ($Computer in $ActiveComputers)  	{   if ($Computer.Enabled -eq $True)   {   Switch -Wildcard ($Computer.OperatingSystem)   {   "Windows XP Professional" {$CountXP = $CountXP + 1 }   "Windows 2000 Server" {$Count2k = $Count2k + 1}   "Windows 7 Professional" {$win7 = $win7 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2003" {$win2k3 = $win2k3 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2008*" {$win2k8 = $win2k8 + 1 }   "Windows Server 2012*" {$win2k12 = $win2k12 + 1 }   "Windows 8*" {$win8 = $win8 + 1 }   "Windows 10*" {$win10 = $win10 + 1 }   $Null {$CountBlank = $CountBlank +1 }   }   $TCount = $TCount + 1   }      }    $ActiveAfterCompTotal = "The Total # of Computer objects After running was " + ($TCount) + ". `nThere were a total of " + ($count) + " computers disabled!`n" + "There was " + ($CountXP) + " Windows XP, " + ($Count2k) + " Win2K server, " + ($win7) + " Windows 7, " + $win2k8 + " Windows 2008 server, " + $win2k3 + " Windows 2003 Server, " + $win2k12 + " Windows Server 2012, " + $win8 + " Windows 8, " + $win10 + " Windows 10, " + " and " + ($CountBlank) + " Blank Computers. `n `n `n"    # Note the Total Active Computers in the Event log  $EventMessage = ($ActiveAfterCompTotal) + (get-date)   Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript -EntryType information -EventID 60001 -Message $EventMessage      # add to and Build Body of Email  $MailBody = ($MailBody) + "`n" + ( $ActiveAfterCompTotal) + " `n " + "List of computers move: " + " 'n " + ($ComputersDisabledLog)    # Send email Message with application log activity related to the Script  # Script run monly so this will give report for current month and previous. You can change this to whatever is best for you.  $LogDate = (Get-Date).addDays(-60)    # Create Report from Application log on this script. Export to a CSV  $AttachementCSV = "C:\Scripts\staleComp.csv"  Get-EventLog -logname Application -Source "StaleComputerOBJPowershellScript" -After $LogDate -Before (Get-Date) | export-csv -Path $AttachementCSV -Force    #List of Disabled and moved Computer accounts + New Location  $AttacheStaleCSV = "c:\Scripts\StaleCompList.txt"  $ComputersDisabledLog | Out-File -filepath $AttacheStaleCSV       # Send Mail Message to a list of Users  $MailSubject = "Stale Computers Disabled on " + (Get-Date)  Send-MailMessage -From "StaleComputerScript@Mycorp.com" -To "User1@MyCorp.com", "User2@mycorp.com" -Subject $MailSubject -Body $MailBody -SmtpServer $EmailSmtpServer -Attachments $AttachementCSV, $AttacheStaleCSV


  • Edited by Rayzavs1 Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:16 PM text in wrong place

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Reply:

The point is that you cannot bypass elevation even if you are an administrator.  You must choose to run the whole script as an elevated administrator in order to write to the eventlog.

The eventlog is not intended to be an application log.  For application logging you should use a file.  THeeventlog is usually used for specif notifications that are of a more global nature.

You can do this without elevation:

write-eventlog -LogName 'Windows PowerShell' -EventId 1 -Message 'My Test log' -Source powershell

Only an elevated admin can create event source names.  They only need to be created once.

\_(ツ)_/


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The "Refresh Now" works but the "Scheduled Refresh" does not

I am able to click Refresh now on my datasets and it refreshes fine. But I cannot schedule a refresh for any of my datasets. I get the following error: "You can't schedule refresh because this dataset contains data sources that do not yet support refresh. Learn more about the data sources we support for refresh."

When I create the datasets, I create the power query in Excel 2013, upload it to OneDrive, and then upload it to Power Bi Preview. I don't understand why it works for the refresh now but not the scheduled refresh. Is there a fix for this?


Reply:
Agaljour, is this still an issue?

Thanks!

Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Hi agaljour,

Is this still an issue? Can you confirm what data sources your are connecting to via Power Query?

Regards,

Michael Amadi

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Website: http://www.nimblelearn.com, Twitter: @nimblelearn


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When I refresh my data, the dashboard does not update and I get an error

I am able to connect to my excel report through OneDrive, and I can make changes and add new data and refresh it perfectly fine. My only issue is when I refresh my dataset, it does not update the dashboards I have created. When I click on the dashboard, I get an error that says "We can't display this visualization because the data model has changed. The report author needs to open the workbook to the Excel client, save it, and upload the workbook again."

We run daily reports on specific information, and don't want to have to keep re-creating the dashboards every time we update our datasets and refresh them. Is there a fix for this? 


Reply:
Agaljour, is this still an issue?

Thanks!

Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Hi agaljour,

Is this still an issue?

Regards,

Michael Amadi

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ADFS 2.0 - troubleshooting

Hello

i've setup a ADFS configuration for a SP relying party by importing their saml metadata.

Trying to access the SP link is not working and from doing a fiddler capture i am seeing the following as a response being sent from them.

<<samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:InvalidNameIDPolicy"/>

I tried to set the nameidpolicy to be persistent on my adfs server by issuing the following command:

Set-AdfsClaimsProviderTrust -TargetName "XYZ-SSO" -RequiredNameIDFormat "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent"

Howerver it keeps throwing an error saying that " no claimsprovidertrust record found with the name "XYZ-SSO"

i tried using persistent, transient, unpspecified, but all are throwing me the following: "HTTP Status 400 - Error procesing AuthnRequest. Service provider does not support name identifier format
urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:persistent"

  • Changed type Amy Wang_ Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:12 AM

Reply:

Hi,

Regarding claims based issue, I suggest you refer to experts from the following forum to get professional support:

Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva Forum

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=Geneva

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Best Regards,

Amy

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Need freeware/open source third party tool for extending Windows 2003 server 's C: Drive

I am looking for freeware/opensource 3rd party tool for extending our Windows 2003 server's C: drive. Since diskpart in Windows 2003 cannot extent system and boot partitions. So, i have checked from bellow thread & maximum tool is not free.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/03068ecb-7edd-43d8-bc68-12bc466c583f/how-to-extend-the-windows-2003-c-drive?forum=winservergen

Anyone there could help me out finding a working tools for that!

OS is in VMware ESXi 5.5.

How can Edge (Spartan) be a useful part of an Enterprise? It has no add-on, BHO, or Application URI support?

With internet explorer there were, if anything, too many ways to make add-ons:

1. ActiveX plugins. Glad they're going away. Fine.

2. BHOs

3. Application URI support (by adding to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)

4. Browser Add-Ons of AnY kind?

Now in Spartan/Edge, the web browser can not auto-launch things on Windows, can not integrate, etc etc. How will the various companies that rely on having such features be able to operate?  For example, how will GoToMeeting clients work with Microsoft Edge? They won't.   This will hinder Edge/Spartan adoption,and be a further nail in the coffin, ensuring close to 100% usage of Chrome.

Warren



wp

  • Changed type Brandon RecordsModerator Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:52 PM Original post initiates discussion of Microsoft Edge enterprise functionality.
  • Moved by Brandon RecordsModerator Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:52 PM Moved to more appropriate forum.

Reply:

I just tested GoToMeeting - works fine. WebEx too.  You can test it yourself - Citrix has a permanent test meeting available here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/406552062

And when I try to access something from the iTunes store - say the Intune Company Portal - from within the Edge browser, right at the top of the page, it says "View in iTunes".  I click it, and boom, goes right to the page to download it from within iTunes.  Check it out for yourself:  Company Portal

Next time, you may want to try out the features first, before mentioning they won't work. 


  • Edited by Q-Tech Monday, June 8, 2015 6:50 PM Intune link broken

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Reply:

Hi Warren,

Thanks for the voices.

Yes Microsoft Edge is not perfect enough to manage enterprise things by now, and that is why Microsoft is going to keep Internet Explorer 11 stayed in Windows 10.

And if we have any issues/Suggestions, please take use of Windows Feedback Tool, or use the feedback in Microsoft Edge directly to submit them.

Regards

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Exchange 2013 cannot connect to ECP

After an exhausting Exchange 2013 install I now find myself unable to connect to ECP! Pointing to the correct VD in IIS, correct permissions. No idea where to even begin. 
  • Changed type Vivian_Wang Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:18 AM

Reply:

Hi,

Any error message about the connection failed?

Meanwhile, for the exchange related issue, you could ask in exchange forums:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?category=exchangeserver

Regards.

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boot manager missing dont have install disc

can you please help me out

Reply:

Does your system has any recovery environment pre-installed which lets you boot
into and restore the factory settings?

S.Sengupta, Windows Experience MVP



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Reply:

Consider using 'Startup Repair' after giving try to 'Sengupta' suggestion. Start tapping 'F8' just after starting your PC and you'd be able to see the advanced startup options. Hit enter and you'll be able to see helpful system recovery options with 'Startup Repair' listed at the top. Follow the same procedure 2 or 3 times to ensure that startup repair has successfully replaced all the damaged or corrupt system fils. 

Let us know your progress!!


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AD RMS

puedo instalar AD RMS en el mismo controlador de dominio? solo como prueba.

Reply:

Hi,

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Measure based on a DistinctCount on dimension

I'm quite new at Analysis Services and I need a calculated measure that counts the amount of worked days per month.

Here's what I've made:

WITH MEMBER MEASURES.[Worked days] AS   	'IIF(  		IsEmpty([Measures].[Session Count]) or [Measures].[Session Count] = 0,   		null,    	distinctcount([TimeDim].[Complete date].members)  	)'  SELECT   	[User].[User].members ON 1,   	{  		[Measures].[Worked days],  		[Measures].[Updates]  	} on 0   FROM   	"Usage Cube"   WHERE [TimeDim].[Month].[November]

The problem with the new measure is that the where clause isn't making any effect on it. It's returning the amount of worked days in the whole database instead of just in the given month. What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance.


Reply:
If you have a data column on the fact object, Do a distinct count on the date and slice it per user(Dimension).

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Reply:

Maybe it may be, somehow, useful to someone, so here's how I pulled it off. It didn't seem to have a poor performance:

WITH   	SET [TimeFilter] AS   		'(filter([TimeDim].[Complete date].members, [TimeDim].[Month].currentmember))'  	MEMBER MEASURES.[Worked days] AS   	'IIF(  		IsEmpty([Measures].[Session Count]) or [Measures].[Session Count] = 0,   		null,    distinctcount([TimeFilter])  	)'  SELECT   	[User].[User].members ON 1,   	{  		[Measures].[Worked days],  		[Measures].[Updates]  	} on 0   FROM   	"Usage Cube"   WHERE [TimeDim].[Month].[November]



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Reply:

Another option is to use the Existing keyword. eg.

'IIF(  		[Measures].[Session Count] = 0,   		null,    	Count(Existing [TimeDim].[Complete date].members)  	)'

It will help if you have configured the attribute hierarchy correctly. For example, Month should be an attribute of Complete date.

Hope that helps,

Richard


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Rant -- I don't see a category for "About to throw oneself out of WINDOW" forum

 I was installing 8.1 pro on a VM on my personal PC (wanted to stay on 7)  to transfer the VM to a MAC so I can use RoboHelp. 

Windows 8.1 COMPLETELY installed itself on MY personal PC  HOSING it--I called support and Armand is possibly the worst CS agent I have dealt with. I couldn't possibly explain what happened he just didn't get it,  but now I am on 8.1 my programs are GONE--AND I am on the hook to buy work a new 8.1..no there is not a partition. 

I tried to explain that

  •  I have now just lost my personal PC and
  • I am on the hook to replace the Windows 8.1 license--I tried to go back to Windows 7 to free up the 8.1 license for work --omg do not ever try to go back to factory install. MY PROGRAMS are gonzo, all of them Windows Office, I don't know where the key is it was a download link when I bought PC =O

Armand is all well we will block the 8.1 on your PC--and I say noooo omg I don't have another OS on my machine now--then I find out, he DID block it so it keeps trying to kick me off. I told him at the time he is not helpful (he is truly stupid or a great actor of stupid)l, I called replacement # and talked to 1 woman and then her supervisor all they did was say "I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do for you"  and throw me against a brick wall of corporate non-accountability. Armand was like explaining this to someone from a different century he kept saying that he couldn't help with VM operations and wanted to transfer me--nooo forget about the VM I kept saying, I need another OS--instead he blocked 8.1 on my machine and now I am soooooo sooooo screwed. 

I just lost my personal pc and programs and files--because Windows 8.1 literally consumed my computer and I don't even know what I am going to to--what hurts the most and yes, I have cried was just how awful all 3 customer service reps were. I am so disgusted and mad, I am looking into a technical doc tool that doesn't rely on windows, I was always a PC person--OH HELL NO, not any longer. It's beyond anything I have witnessed as far as COULD NOT CARE Less. It's disgusting and criminal, MS just took hundreds of dollars and a long week-end away from me, nevermind the awful feeling --it's terrible I'm so so upset. EFF you too Windows, FU too.



Reply:

I'd ask over about what might have gone wrong.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-us/home?forum=w7itprovirt

 

 

 

Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]

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Reply:
It doesn't really matter because I couldn't get the OS back even if I knew what exactly happened--all I know is that MS didn't stand by the product or make it right for me and I feel quite bitter about it. I ended up setting up a virtual desktop, giving up on the VM and purchasing a new windows 7 for my own pc. MS support couldn't understand what happened enough to recognize how badly MS software screwed me, my personal and business machines. I will do everything that I can to only work on Mac and Adobe for the rest of my days. I used to laugh at the people who felt enmity against MS, I never really understood it until now. A corporation with the size and might of MS not helping a tech writer whose pc was just hijacked by a legitimately purchased product is insane and wrong to me. Obviously, I'm not letting it go anytime soon.

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I am unable to see the end point WS-Trust url in my ADFS 2.0 MMC

Hi All,

I am unable to see the end point WS-Trust url in my ADFS 2.0 MMC


Thanks,

Arjun.

  • Changed type Frank Shen5 Monday, July 13, 2015 2:26 AM Redirected

Reply:
I would recommend asking them here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=Geneva

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Still not what a pro desktop user needs

I'm sorry to say that, tried W8, did not want it at all, thought W10 would bring back a pro GUI, but it's not !

I tried the professionnal x64 release, the start menu shows 10% or less professionnal tools, where is the run button ?

I'm disappointed that the unique flat theme offers almost no usefull customization, for productivity, people need that (the way it was on Windows XP was much better). Can't Microsoft hear that ? Each user has his own way of working, mousing, keyboarding... and needs a GUI where all elements can be resized, colorized... etc. Search on the web for "Change explorer background color windows 7" and you will see what I mean. I hate to have a bright white background, it hurts.

Pro workstations and mobile devices are as different as would be fridge and a thermos. Would you design a fridge considering thermos requirements ?

I can't believe Microsoft is paying attention to users feedback, I believe they pay attention only to their marketing department for whom only market part size matters.

All serious corporations (like banks, government, industry, R&D...) should never accept cloud data hosting nor cloud apps, security & privacy are their priority.

All Unix GUIs were made for pro users, and these users were feeling fine with these. Why didn't you just made a X11-like GUI as Apple did ? What most users (even home users) want is performance, simple actions and customization. They won't upgrade their OS just for some more integrated gadgets and a cloud-binded system. Some may want, I will never.

Regards,

B.P. Software & System Eng. (Embedded systems)


Reply:

To be positive too, here are simple ideas that would make IMO a pro release :

  • Office should be fully integrated to the O.S. (at least most used apps: word, excel)
  • Events console rapid access
  • CLI (command) rapid access
  • TCP/IP config 1-click access (not 10 clicks to change a DNS adress)
  • Meta-desktop view with multiple desktops seen as sub-frames allowing drag&drops, copy/pastes...
  • Components activation choice during install process
  • Pro backup solution integrated
  • Automation tools, simplified tasks scheduler, indexing options
  • simple / advanced / Unix-like search engine (3 levels)
  • shared DNS server component for intranet domain to replace workgroup system even without any local windows server available
  • ...

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Reply:

Agreed. I waited for a few updates before i installed on a dual boot machine. I to did not touch W8 or 8.1, i used it a bit and hated the fact that it was obviously created for a computer that very few of us had.

Now we have Windows 10 and apart from a few changes we seem to have basically stuck to the same problems that W8 had for everyone. At least now its feels a bit like it was actually made with a non tablet/touch screen in mind as well.

However if after this build we have basically seen all there is to see then i think i will stick with W7, when will MS learn to give us what we want not what they think we want. To many clicks to do a simple thing, stuff still hidden in to many different places. The should be far less folders and menus than there is now. We would like a slimmed down GUI but we still want to be able to customise it to our preferences.

I want to have the GUi of my choosing, font, colour, size of menu bar, size of scroll bar etc, all these things we had in W7 and now with 8 and now 10 we have lost this. I bet there are allot of tweakers out there who are licking their lips at all the tweaks they are going to come up with so we can have the interface we want.

Looks like i will be un installing W10 when it ships because i cant see it being anything like i hoped or wanted. I do wonder who it is that MS claim to be listening to if we cant get the OS we want.

Yours to loose MS.


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Reply:

Completely agree with your opinion. The lack of customization options is why I NEVER seriously considered windows 8 and I WON'T install win10 even for free unless:

1) I get TOTAL control and ability to completely remove and disable Metro elements. I work on my PC and I don't need the clutter... I have other devices for social apps and a web browser that is far more secure than MS's offering. Lastly, I will sooner destroy my pc with a blow torch than give a bunch of apps invasive permissions to have access to my personal computer. I dislike that for the phones and even more for PCs.

2) I can completely disable any MS access to my machine with the exception of windows update and technical assistance IF required and accepted by me. By this I mean: no active aps, MS store (they have websites if I need to buy things).

The biggest issue here is not some sort of "aversion to 'progress'" as some marketers keep pointing out, but aversion to useless clutter that doesn't contribute anything to my productivity and serves as a distraction. I think most thinking individuals would agree that there is a difference between those two concepts.


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Reply:
I was reading some comments by MS moderators and basically the attitude I spotted was a sort of "we are better than thou" bit with a side serving of "get on with progress you backward log"...  I think at some point the philosophy of this company (as well as of it's founder) changed from providing a competitive product for clients (if it ever was that) to basically telling clients what they should want and be - "school to work", baby... well, Win8 was the result........

But on a more serious note, the simplistic UI and picturesque "we will now run your pc" is based on a marketing calculation; that most users actually will benefit from a simple to use computer that hides all the guts and gives you a "feed" of social app candy... so, they know they will profit from this simplistic and inflexible UI!!!!!!

The failure of win8 in that respect was probably all the terrible reviews the OS got from experienced users. They are now being smarter and just GIVING AWAY win10 lol well, NOT with METRO and a store I can't remove, you don't. But if they throw enough money at advertising and give out enough copies, they may actually succeed.


  • Edited by klarion Monday, June 1, 2015 8:27 AM

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Reply:

Unfortunately the fact is, Steve Balmer, the Previous Microsoft CEO was the one that invented the "Metro Design" which makes it some how related to Android, and unfortunately also Trashed the "Windows Classic" Low-Res Themes(used by Windows 9x to Windows 7) instead because he felt Bill Gates was terrible at new Themes and such, figured as much with others, but also these 3 Reasons might have something to do with Crashes affecting the High-Res themes,

In Windows 8 and later, the following changes to the theming model address the previous drawbacks:  

  • The Windows classic theming model is no longer supported, enabling developers to maintain just one code path for applications that target only Windows 8.
  • Because visual styles and DWM are on in Windows 8, high contrast users have access to features such as thumbnail previews and the full-screen magnifier.
  • Visual styles support setting the colors of various UI elements, enabling high contrast users to customize the UI to accommodate individual needs and preferences.
  • Windows 8 includes compatibility support for existing applications that are designed to use high contrast themes based on the Windows classic theming model.

In Other Words, Microsoft's CEO Said No because of these 3 issues they do not want to Revisit, if anything, more people are going to get rather disgruntled and may even push Microsoft to Extend Windows 7 by another 4 years for support, just like what they did to XP, so in Turn, Microsoft is refusing to act on restoring the Windows Classic, well I figure this makes me rather upset on it, I just wish Microsoft had understood the reasons why the "Windows Classic" Low-Res Themes is one most users do not want to see going bye bye.

  • Edited by Jeffrey228 Monday, June 1, 2015 7:42 AM

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Reply:
All that you said is good and to the point... however, many people's gripes are not about Hi res display capabilities or any of the things that you mention, but rather, the layout, lack of versatility (being able to hide/remove unwanted elements), and generally gimmicky design with potentially intrusive app permissions.

For example, I like the visual styles of Win10... but I don't want to deal with app shortcuts, notifications all over the place, MS store and all of those other features casual users may like. I want a simple start menu bar that gives me access to programs, run command, all the internals of the OS and system settings.... simple and to the point while taking as LITTLE space as possible. You'd think that would be easy to accomplish. And don't get me started on the "integrated MS store" - talk about a deterrent to getting a PC OS..... I also would like MORE security and MORE privacy... not less.

  • Edited by klarion Monday, June 1, 2015 8:19 AM

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Reply:

The simple answer is choice, not control.


  • Edited by B4Marc Monday, June 1, 2015 12:18 PM

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Reply:

Thanks for these comments, I feel less alone :)

I don't understand why MS who is  used to copy other's ideas don't do it for this 2015 OS...

It's so usefull to have serveral customizable menus on a taskbar (like on Mac OS X), why getting sticked with only one tiny start button ?

And why do they throw away good things : the W7 gadget concept was nice, a background is a useless area, why not fill it with offline & online monitoring widgets (but CPU-light) ? Improving the gadget system would have been better than deleting it.

I'm surprised seeing so few innovations with the money they can spend in R&D...

I listed ideas in another post that do not seem to be on the same forum but to make it short it was talking about 2 main things people need from a desktop OS : Customization and Transparency

We don't want to use a kind of Trojan-based OS launching shadow offline or online tasks with no user prompt. We don't want either an intrusive OS. These are basic GUI design rules that were yet tought too engineers in the 90's, it's still available IMO.


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Reply:

I am exactly the same. I have disabled "action center" since it first appeared in vista or windows 7. I disable every single notification as well. I disable UAC. I don't use any of them modern apps and don't think i ever will. The only exception being the apps that replace existing windows applications like calculator. But even then i have my own image viewing software and browser like most people these days.

With that said i find windows 10 fine in that regard. I disable uac, login with a local account.Disable the notifications of all apps, disable the security center service. Disable the action center sys tray icon. I would also disable windows defender but they have now locked the service down to prevent that.

I also disable several windows tasks as well, defrag, auto disk check. windows defender scheduled scans.

As for styles/themes, in windows 7 i was forced to crack the dll to be able to use non official ms styles, which i always hated doing. Had to use the "uxtheme patcher", then i could use msstyles from deviantart or elsewhere. I asked MS in windows feedback to make it so that thirdparty styles could be added and even suggested that they should embrace that and make it easier for people to create their own styles by creating a better style API. Doesn't seem like they want to do that.

I have also requested that they add all the features from the software "7 taskbar tweaker" as that guy has managed through an explorer dll hook to add a whole ton of features to the windows 7 taskbar that makes it so much more functional.

I could only imagine what windows would be like if MS took all the effort they put in to making it work on tablets, in to making it a better OS for desktops.

One thing I have been requesting for years is full window transparency, so that i can make my putty window transparent. I don't think it would be difficult to add, linux based X environments have had full windows transparency for 15 years. There is also this very old and non updated software "virtual dimension" that actually still adds full window transparency to windows 7, although very buggy.

But like i said in its current state it (win10) does not annoy me in day to day use and that says a lot.

  • Edited by Johnmclain Monday, June 8, 2015 4:13 PM

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Reply:

The simple answer is choice, not control.


You're right about that!  Microsoft has followed the Apple lead and their aim is to control everything you do with a computer.  You must have a Microsoft account to access the "Store" exactly the same as Apple!  You can't even provide feedback without a Microsoft account, just like Apple.

It would have more efficient if Microsoft and Apple had just merged and migrated all the Windows users to OS X.


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Reply:

Hey bygp,

Right-click each of those tiles, and choose Unpin from Start Menu.

Once they're all removed you can mouse over the  right border of the area they were in and drag it over to the left.

Did you know that the Windows Key (looks like a flag) + R opens the Run window?

Did you see that if you right-click the Win 10 Start button, that Run is right there?

Also you can add things to the Start Menu, such as Run. To do that you'd find cmd inside of Windows/System32, then right-click it and choose Pin to Start Menu.



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Can not install Hyper-V on 10130 ( Solved )

I can not enable Hyper-V support on my laptop eventho my CPU supports it fully and virtualization is enabled in BIOS. After I check the box on the optionalfeatures.exe and the files seem all in place and the system reboots BUT it hangs while 66 % and then reverses all the changes made.

Any help is very much appreciated, Thank you in advance

Edit: Problem solved

I was careless enough not to uninstall a third party antivirus, after that was uninstalled all was just fine.


Reply:

Thank you for sharing your experience.


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in exchange 2007 i need to list all the users in a specific distribution group , somthing like all the users of the group gr_sales

i need to list teh names of all the users in a specific distribution group , somthing like all the users of the group "gr_sales"

thanks for your time

Juan Angel Graña MCSE


Reply:

Get-DistributionGroupMember –identity "gr_sales" | ft name|Out-File  c:\salidascript\grupo.txt

Juan Angel Graña MCSE


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Workflow task and MyTask webpart

Hi!

I created approval workflow in visual studio, but the task doesn't appears in the My Tasks webpart.

The workflow contains CreateTaskWithContentType.

Can anyone help me, how can I show the workflow task in the webpart?

We doesn't use Workflow Manager 2013.

Please help!

Thanks,

Mykie

How detailed do you/would you go?

Guys,

I'm trying to decide between two different approaches for a new project. This is perhaps more of a PM vs Project question but I figured that how one uses Project to track the two different approaches made it relevant...

I have a software development task, here's what I know at the moment:

  • There will be 6 'blocks' of development - for which I have approximate timings (but not scope yet!)
  • There will be 6 corresponding blocks of testing and feedback dev.
  • At the moment this will be resourced with 2x developers, the exact split of tasks isn't known yet
  • This will run from around now till about November.
  • When they have scopes devs create detailed WBSs going down to 1/4 hour tasks. A two week block might have say 50-60 tasks.

I'm tossing up two options:

  1. 1. Have the entire WBS in project, all the little 0.25 hour tasks and everything. Track it, giving me the most level of detail.
  2. 2. Have just the 6 blocks without breaking them down - meaning I may have a task of say 2 weeks, one of say 4 weeks etc.

I can see pros and cons of both, at the moment I'm erring towards the second approach - wondering if my project plan needs to be as detailed as approach 1. (bearing in mind a different system to record timings from the developers is in place and could be interrogated if one desires (TFS).

I'm curious as to what approach you take in your plans, thanks for reading :)


Reply:

Rob-R,

I vote for option 2 every time. Unless your whole project is very short, (e.g. 2 days total), breaking tasks down to .25 hours is in my mind, ridiculous. For a "normal" project of several weeks, months or years, that fine a detail will only result in someone spending all their time tracking the minutia.

But here's another approach. For long projects, (e.g. a few years), you might consider only planning out the first 6 months in detail, and by detail I mean tasks that are no less than a couple weeks duration, or month long tasks, depending on what gives the best visibility. Tasks beyond the 6 month window are held simply as planning packages but complete with estimated work and cost values (budget). As the program nears the end of the first 6 month window (e.g. at 4 or 5 months), expand the next planning packages with detail for another 6 months. Follow that process throughout the program.

My thoughts.

John


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Reply:

Thanks John, I was steering towards that way myself too. I discussed it with a colleague who seemed to agree as well.

As regards your other approach, we sort of do that with a rolling maintenance project, whereby the sum of the project is probably a few years but each item has an approximate cost and importance, when we can we group a few of them together to make a project - it sounds similar to what you're saying. This seems to work well for this kind of activity.


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Reply:

Rob-R,

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. We used the planning package approach at the company where I worked. Our projects were engineering development so they had many unknown unknowns along the path to project completion. By using the planning package approach we were able to keep an overall budget per contact but yet had flexibility to adjust the details as the development progressed.

John


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Posta indesiderata in Outlook 2007

Posta indesiderata in Outlook 2007

Buongiorno, ho un outlook 2007 SP3 che da una settimama non mantiene più il filtro della posta indesiderata.

In pratica se all' interno della gestione della posta indesiderata attivo il filtro "ALTA" questo resta attivo solo finchè outlook resta aperto.

Quando lo chiudo alla riapertura del programma il filtro è distattivato

Grazie a chi saprà darmi incicazioni in merito

Sergio Ornaghi

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Reply:

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Thank you for visiting our forum.

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Reply:

Hello,
Please ask in the Italian Microsoft Community forums: http://answers.microsoft.com/it-it

Ciao,

Si prega di chiedere nel forum della comunità italiana di Microsoft: http://answers.microsoft.com/it-it

Karl

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Can´t connect

Hey, wanna ask for help. Yesterday I just turn on my laptot and it can´t connect to internet. It just identifying really long and then it says that the connection is limited and when i try to use internet it says DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET. But I can use internet on the second laptop, also on mobile. I tryed to turn off firewall, I also tryed to write netsh winsock reset. Do you have any ideas how to get it work? Thanks for answers


Reply:
have you tried typing ipconfig /flushdns from the command prompt?

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Reply:

Hi, I just solved a similar issue by disabling and enabling the network adapter.

Another option is to check if your IP settings are correctly set or your DHCP is not having limited scope.

Good luck


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Active Directory Stack trace

Hello,

When running a below AD command, getting stack trace at some point.

Command : Import-Module ActiveDirectory; Get-AdUser $User -Server $Domain;

Most of the time, it is working as expected. But at times it gives the stack trace error:

<error>A local error has occurredStack Trace:    at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.AdwsConnection.ThrowExceptionForErrorCode(String message, String errorCode, String extendedErrorMessage, Exception innerException)at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.AdwsConnection.ThrowException(CustomActionFault caFault, FaultException faultException)at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.AdwsConnection.GetADForest(GetADForestRequest request)at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADWebServiceStoreAccess.Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.IADTopologyManagement.GetADForest(ADSessionHandle handle, GetADForestRequest request)at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADTopologyManagement.GetForest()at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.ADForestFactory`1.GetExtendedObjectFromIdentity(T identityObj, String identityQueryPath, ICollection`1 propertiesToFetch, Boolean showDeleted)at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.ADGetCmdletBase`3.ProcessRecordOverride()at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADForest.ProcessRecordOverride()at Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.ADCmdletBase.ProcessRecord()</error>

How to resolve this?

Manage Portfolios with PWA 2013

We are looking to  use project server 2013 for resource and project portfolio management.  We are a Telecom Organization of approximately 600 -800.

We would like to do the following :

1- Manage several projects from several Departments of our organization and getting reports

2- Monitor Projects scheduling and Departments planning  both together and separately 

3- Add weights and priority to projects for having some special reports

I would be grateful to have both comments and experience about above works, can we use portfolio analysis? In general, I mean, is that correct to use portfolio analysis? if not, what should we do?

thanks 


Reply:
Hi, I wouldn't use portfolio analysis, as that is about Project SELECTION, but I would use the general functionality of Project Server to manage those projects...

Ben Howard [MVP] | web | blog | book | P2O


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Reply:

Hi,

Indeed Project Server 2013 does allow to do portfolio management defining business drivers and ranking the projects in given portfolio. Since there is a lot of to say on this subject, I suggest you to read this white paper (for 2010 but still applicable for 2013).

I also suggest you to contact the closest Project Server consultant firm so you can have a dedicated presentation and demo about the solution capabilities.

https://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us

Hope this helps,

Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |


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Reply:

Thank you Guillaume


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Online Responding and CRL/AIA Discussion

Dears,

I want to discuss below points to know what is the best that can be done.

In my environment, I have below servers:

  • ROOT-CA: is offline Standalone Root CA, CRL/AIA are published Locally and to http://Respond-01/, in AIA I have configured the path for online responding to: http://Respond-01/ocsp
  • Respond-01: is online server with IIS and ONline Responding Service Role
  • Subordinate-01: is online CA Issuing Server, configured with default LDAP CRL/AIA publishing, and with online responding URL to: http://Respond-01/ocsp

I want to disucss below:

  1. Shall I configure Subordinate-01 CRL and AIA to be published to Respond-01? is there any need or best practice that ask for this?
  2. My online respond server OCSP certificate is trusted by the Root CA, shall I change the certificate to be trusted by Subordinate? is there any best practice for this point?
  • Changed type Steven_Lee0510 Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:47 AM Discussion

Reply:

I would recommend to read this post: http://en-us.sysadmins.lv/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=103

regarding OCSP: I don't see any practical reason to use OCSP for root CAs.

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Windows Server Registry

If you could only backup one registry tree (not an entire hive) which would you back up? and why?

If you could be selective within that tree, what sub-tree's would you back up? and why?

I'm inclined to say that HKLM/SYSTEM is more important than most, and perhaps specifically HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet. Most of the server settings seem to be located in that tree somewhere, so to me that stands out as something I would want to capture.

Jeffrey S. Patton Jeffrey S. Patton Systems Specialist, Enterprise Systems University of Kansas 1001 Sunnyside Ave. Lawrence, KS. 66045 (785) 864-0242 | http://patton-tech.com


Reply:
You should treat registry as a database and back it up as a whole. Backing up only parts of registry makes no sense as both - system and most of applications - store information in different "parts" of registry.

Gleb.


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Moody’s: XL Increased 10%

Moody's Investors Services, one of the most trusted companies that provides comprehensive credit rating and research covering debt instruments and securities, released a full year report on PT XL Axiata Tbk, a sister company of Axis Capital Group, one of the biggest telecommunications company with subsidiaries around Asia. Moody's reviews show that Axiata is broadly in line with their expectation and support XL's Ba1 corporate family rating and stable outlook, despite its elevated leverage.

Reported revenue has increased to 10% to IDR23.6 million for 2014 with an expected continued growth and development. Growth in data and value-added services supported by marginal growth in voice and SMS are some of the factors that helped the increase.

Smart phones penetration also increased by 127% year-on-year and the data usage in all media has also increased. However though, data prices continue to lag. There are no increase data prices over the years because of the complaints of uneven distribution of data among site locations. This factor is the reason why there is a 4% decline in blended average revenue per user.

Moody's expects margins to contract slightly in the end of 2015 owing to lower revenues from XL's higher margin tower leasing operations post sale of 3,500 towers to Solusi Tunas Pratama Tbk.

While XL's elevated leverage is not in line with its Ba1 rating given by Moody's, this increase will be transient as we expect the company will use a majority of the proceeds from its IDR5.6 trillion sale of 3,500 towers to Solusi Tunas Pratama Tbk (STP, unrated) in December to pay down debt.

Management has maintained capex guidance of about IDR7 trillion for 2015, broadly in line with capex of IDR7 trillion in 2014 and IDR7.4 trillion in 2013. This continuing trend of declining capex to revenue is in line with Moody's expectations as the company has substantially completed its 3G network infrastructure, and has started enjoying some of the capex savings following its Axis acquisition, particularly spending to support its 2G network infrastructure. The emergence of 4G networking, first tested in Jakarta, Indonesia has also been helpful in the continues development of XL.

Additionally, XL's recent tower sale to STP is credit positive for XL as it allows the company to monetize its non-core tower assets to improve its liquidity. Furthermore, the sale and leaseback terms are quite favorable for XL, and will help to boost the company's cash flows and future operating profits. The fixed lease rental at IDR10 million per month is significantly lower than the current market average, and there are no separate service fees or inflation escalator. Such favorable deal terms are unprecedented in the Indonesian tower sector.


fbl_impressive Core 10061 - Error 0xc1900107

I'm using Fast Ring for my updates and have received notice that build 10061 is available for update (from 10049). When I go to the update settings I have the above error - when clicking on retry my status bar will go to 50% and then error with the above. I have tried rebooting, leaving the computer off overnight and holding my mouth in different positions without anything working.

I am also getting an error while it's trying to update my NVidia GeForce driver; NVIDIA driver update for NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G - Error 0x80070103 (this was the 1st error which never cleared itself).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Reply:

Dj

Try this

1.    Open a Command Prompt (Run as Administrator)
2.    Type: cd %windir% and press the Enter key.
3.    Type: net stop wuauserv and press the Enter key
4.    Type: ren softwaredistribution softwaredistribution.old and press the Enter key.
5.    [ Note: if you get an error message, ignore and type the above again and press Enter ]
6.    Type: net start wuauserv and press the Enter key.
7.    Type: Exit and press Enter, then go back and check for Windows Updates again.

Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag


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Reply:

Hi,

I am having the same problem as djOzzy59.  I tried what you suggested above and it isn't working for me.  I have also tried stopping WU through the management console, disabling it deleting the SoftwareDistribution folder re-enabling and re-starting WU and then down loading the update again (through WU).  I get the same error again.

Is there something else I could try?


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Reply:
Thank you man! i had the same problem but now it's solved.

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Reply:

I too had this problem on one machine (another was successfully updated without any problems). Try deleting your c:\$Windows.~BT folder. If you have problems like I did deleting that folder, one of the suggestions I read elsewhere online was to take ownership of the folder first. FYI, that did nothing for me, so the next best alternative was to remove the drive, connect it as a portable drive (using a spare usb 3.0 enclosure I had), then deleting the $Windows.~BT folder.

I popped the drive back into the system and tried running windows update again, and voila--updated correctly.  I suspected something was wrong/corrupt with that folder because it was only 595MB, when I knew that in previous Win 10 builds, that folder was over 2.50GB. This folder was also missing many of the folders/files that should be present in order to create/convert esd to ISO.

Hope this helps--this was a particularly nagging issue for me since 10049 had upgrade problems for me as well on some machines but not on others.


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Reply:
Have the same problem as djOzzy59 exactly. Tried both fixes by ZigZag3143x and byunnbi with no joy. After several attempts, and then a reboot, reran Win Update and download seemed normal but as soon as the install started, the Updates window closed by itself. When opening again it shows the same error message. On a side not for byunnbi, the $Windows.~BT and Windows.old files can be removed using Disk Cleanup. Anyway, I've put  the problem on hold hoping for other ideas.
 Anything else I might try?
  • Edited by LeeWilt1 Wednesday, April 29, 2015 3:27 AM

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Reply:

I have the same issue, I've tried everything! I have no idea what to do now. Waiting for MS to look into this, we can't be alone with this matter.

So frustrated...



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Reply:
Have the same problem as djOzzy59 exactly. Tried both fixes by ZigZag3143x and byunnbi with no joy. After several attempts, and then a reboot, reran Win Update and download seemed normal but as soon as the install started, the Updates window closed by itself. When opening again it shows the same error message. On a side not for byunnbi, the $Windows.~BT and Windows.old files can be removed using Disk Cleanup. Anyway, I've put  the problem on hold hoping for other ideas.
 Anything else I might try?

OK. I found a solution that seems to have worked for me. The error indicates that Windows Update fails because it is trying to install the same driver that already exists. In my case, I already had the latest driver version installed. I closed windows update, went into Device Manger and removed the NVIDIA GeForce Display Adapter (also, I selected to completely remove the existing driver). After this, I scanned for hardware changes and Windows installed a generic display adapter. I then ran Windows Update (no errors). After a reboot, the system discovered the NVIDIA GeForce display adapter and installed the proper driver again. I then ran Windows Update again, no errors, everything up to date. I hope this helps someone else.

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Reply:

Hi all,

If the above suggestions posted are not work, and you would like to do a clean install with Windows 10 build 10074, then download it from here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

Read more information about Windows 10 build 10074 in blog:

New Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10074 now available

Regards

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Reply:
I was having the same issue, so downloaded ISO of build 10074, booted to usb, it starts installing, then reboots, blue screen, reboots, blue screen, then reverts back to build 10041. I tried running the setup from within Windows build 10041 too, same thing happened. I mainly want to try Spartan\Edge, it's not in build 10041.

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Reply:

Gareth0208,

Find the setupact.log file under the following locations:

$windows.~bt\Sources\Rollback

More information, please check:

Windows Setup Log Files and Event Logs

Regards

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Reply:
Same issue, the $Windows.~BT folder!  Although, mine was 0KB, and had a few sub folders.  It wouldn't let me delete, I couldn't take ownership..... So I renamed it, and that worked :)  Thanks for the tip.  Trying to update from 10060 to 10130 for the last few weeks!

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Window 10 and random STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION on file writes

We have WDF driver that writes messages to the text file located at the system volume information folder by the  WdfRequestSend. In the complition routine the WdfRequestGetStatus returns me RANDOMLY  STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION  error code. In most cases writes succeed.  The driver is tested on thouthands of envs and problem exists only in Windows 10. What can be the reason of problem? How to get support on this from MS? 


Reply:

For this issue, it is better you refer to Windows Hardware Dev Center:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg236587.aspx


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Reply:

Add the duplicate thread for reference:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a814ce30-e0ee-4738-b806-b8ea79df5da5/window-10-and-statusaccessviolation-problem?forum=wdk

Regards

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read sharepoint 2010 list using c# in script componet

I'm new to c#. I'm using c# in script component of SSIS to read SharePoint list data into xml file. When I run package, am getting an error. I suspect with url. Is it right way to define?

string url="http://sharepoint.xyz.com/sites/abc/list/listnamexyz/the_testing.aspx";  var httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);  httpRequest.Method="Get";  httpRequest.ContentType='application/xml;encoding='utf-8'";    var response = (HttpWebResponse)httpRequest.GetResponse();  var receivestream = response.GetResponseStream();    var mysourcedoc = load(receivestream);    mysourcedoc.save(@"C:\test1.xml");


  • Edited by kdinuk Tuesday, June 2, 2015 11:05 AM
  • Changed type kdinuk Tuesday, June 16, 2015 5:02 PM topic

Reply:

Hi,

If you want to access Sharepoint List data from SSIS, the following blog would be helpful.

How To Use a SharePoint List as a Data Source in your SSIS Package.

http://dataqueen.unlimitedviz.com/2011/06/how-to-use-a-sharepoint-list-as-a-data-source-in-your-ssis-package/

If you only want to use script component, please refer to the link below:

http://www.pawlowski.cz/2011/04/reading-sharepoint-list-and-survey-data-using-integration-services-package/

Best Regards

TechNet Community Support
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Reply:
I tried this way.The total count is 15000, am getting only 300 records. I left count empty but still am getting only 300 records. I think there is a pagination problem. Please correct me if am wrong.

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Reply:

I used this link - http://timlaqua.com/2012/07/consuming-sharepoint-lists-via-odata-with-ssis/

I'm getting at pagination issue and am getting only 1000 rows. The pagination code is not working. I'm facing an issue at 

int recordCount = projects.Count();
Could you please help me out...
  • Edited by kdinuk Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:44 AM

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ADFS/ Workplace join issue

Hi,

I have set up a test 2012R2 environment which is as follows:

DC1.example.local: 192.168.2.90  (2012R2)

xyz-adfs.example.local: 192.168.2.150 (2012R2)

proxy.example.local : 192.168.2.160 (2012R2)

fileserver.example.local 192.168.2.114 (2012R2)

The AD domain is example.local and the external domain is example.net. I ahve a wildcard cert for *.example.net that I am using.

The ADFS service name is exampleadfs.

I've set this up using the guide at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn747208.aspx 

My DNS entries are:

Internal DNS: 

example.net (Forward Zone)> workfolders.example.net pointing to 192.168.2.114, exampleadfs.example.net pointing to 192.168.2.150, enterpriseregistration.example.net pointing to 192.168.2.150.

External DNS: workfolders.example.net, exampleadfs.example.net and enterpriseregistration.example.net  all point to the WAN IP.

The intent was to get work folders working for domain and non domain joined devices, inside and outside the LAN.

This works fine internally and externally. The only issue is that as the authentication token expires after 8 hours, users have to re-enter their passwords which is not ideal. according to this : http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2014/07/07/using-adfs-authentication-for-work-folders.aspx if I workspace join the devices in question, the token expiration period becomes 7 days by default and can be adjusted. This is where my problem comes in. Workplace join does not work correctly.

1) On the client, I can see event id 102, source Workplace Join : Error code 0x80072EFD. a connection to the server could not be established. Could not connect to https://EnterpriseRegistration.example.local:443/Enrollmentserver/Contract.. Is there any way to get the client to connect to the external URL, example.net instead of example.local? 

2) Similarly, when running Enable-AdfsDeviceRegistration on the ADFS server, I got : 'Warning: The SSL certificate does not contain all the UPN suffix values that exist in the enterprise. Users with UPN suffix values not represented in the certificate will not be able to Workplace-Join their devices'. As the client uses .local in their AD domain, I cannot get a third party SAN that will include that. Is there any way i can get this working with only the third party wildcard cert or do I have to install a local certificate server?

Thanks,

HA 


  • Changed type Vivian_Wang Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:35 AM

Reply:

Hi,

Sorry for the delay reply.

About the error 102, this problem occurs because the 2012 R2 Active Directory Federation Server (AD FS) service is not running.

Please check the AD FS Service status.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3045381

Regards.

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Reply:

Hi Vivian,

The ADSF service was started. I wound up uninstalling and reintalling ADFS, Web app proxy and Workfolders. This time around, I created a UPN for the external domain example.net. It seems to be correctly working for domain joined and non domain joined windows 8.1 pcs in that I can join them to the workplace.

One thing I did notice was that now, when I access https://exampleadfs.example.net/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon.htm

from the ADFS server itself, I get a windows security prompt asking me to confirm a certificate for MS-Organization-Access. Clicking ok takes me to the ADFS sign in page. This only happens on the ADFS server and not the clients where I do not get this prompt.  Is this normal behavior?

Additionally, how would I change the default authentication token timeout period from 7 days? The  blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2014/07/07/using-adfs-authentication-for-work-folders.aspx ) mentions you can do it but now how.

Thanks very much,

HA


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Reply:

Hi,

As the blog mentioned, with a valid refresh token, user doesn't need to be prompt for credentials, Work Folders client will take the refresh token and authenticate with the ADFS server to get the access token. This is for work folder client.

Additionally, how would I change the default authentication token timeout period from 7 days?

I did not find MS article describe how to configure this value, i would suggest you ask in ADFS forums for technical support:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=Geneva

Regards.

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cant start debbing because exe is missing in visual studio

hi i have made one successful program in visual studio but now i have tried making 4 programs and visual studio said for all of them that it cant start debugging because exe is missing? when i check in documents, visual studio, projects and so on there is exe files and i tried opening them from there but it doesn't work?

Reply:

Hello,

The forum is for VSTO specific questions. Do you develop a VSTO based add-in?


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Reply:

It looks like you are creating a class library project which needs a start up project to be set up. In your 4 project-solution, follow the given options, 

  1. Select the project which has an executable file. Console or other similar applications would do so.
  2. Right click on the project.
  3. Set it as Start up project.

Now the project would be set to start up project. When you would debug it (Start) it would run this project as main entry program. 

The sh*t I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem


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Reply:

Afzaal,

Typically VSTO add-ins don't require setting the external application to start with.


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Reply:
Hi I'm new to visual studio but i mostly have experience with web development software, but anyway i have been learning from youtube vids and I'm not sure what you mean, I did everything in visual studio from watching youtube vids?

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Reply:

Hi wow cool

Could you please tell us what kind of project/solution you've created so that we can move your question to the most appropriate forum? Perhaps if you told us the menu commands you used to create the project? File/...?

Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP, my blog


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Reply:
Its a screen capture project

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Reply:

Hi wow cool

That's not helpful. We need more information about the TECHNOLOGY you're using. I'm going to move this to a forum that supports finding the correct forum for what you're doing...

Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP, my blog


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Reply:

Might try them over here.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=csharpgeneral%2Cvbgeneral%2Cvcgeneral&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc

 

 

 

Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.


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No sound with Realtek AC'97 ALC850 on Asus P5ND2-SLI with Windows 7 64bit

No matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall realtek drivers, I still cannot get sound. I know its not the speakers because I have tried several different sets and different headphones. I've tried each audio port and configuring speakers to different settings. It thinks it is outputting sound (you can see the volume bars varying when playing music) but I hear nothing on max volume.

It does not play the start up sound for windows...does that mean it is more likely a hardware issue than driver/software?
  • Changed type tracycai Tuesday, February 5, 2013 7:31 AM

Reply:
Did you go into the realtek setup and select your default devices?

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Reply:

Please refer to Schloicka's reply and see if this resolve the sound issue.

Tracy Cai

TechNet Community Support


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Reply:

Don't know if somebody reads this, but it may help others :)

If you have a standard PC (no laptop) try putting 2 jumpers on the motherboard's left & right output of Front Panel Audio Connector. The jumper settings should be in your motherboard's manual. That helped me for an Asus A8N-E board. I had the same problem.


  • Edited by Mackelek Saturday, May 16, 2015 6:47 PM

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Reply:

Fabulous - worked for me too on an Asus P5ND2 SLI mobo.

Thanks Mackelek


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Just FYI, new blog post "New NIC Teaming Documentation for Windows Server Technical Preview"

Just FYI, new blog post "New NIC Teaming Documentation for Windows Server Technical Preview" at http://aka.ms/vatk0b

Thanks -

James McIllece

SCCM 2012 Log Reference

These are the logs and a referenced definition of what is in the particular log file. These files are located where SCCM is installed.

Server logs are located "\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs"

Client logs are located "\Windows\CCM\Logs"

AppDiscovery.log Detects installed Application Deployment Types and if deployed Deployment Types are not installed, this log file will show you why (only for the new style ConfigMgr Applications)
AppEnforce.log will show you the actual command-line executed and the resulting exit code for each Deployment Type (only for the new style ConfigMgr Applications)
AppIntentEval.log evaluates each Deployment Type's dependencies and policies (only for the new style ConfigMgr Applications)
AssetAdvisor.log inventories all installed software (not 100% sure)
CAS.log Content access service, discovers DPs, download sources and maintains local cache
CCM32BitLauncher.log logs all command-lines for executed packages (old style ConfigMgr)
CCMEval.log depends on %windir%ccm\ccmeval.xml and checks the CCM client's health
CCMEvalTask.log checks if the CCMEval Task has run
CCMExec.log monitors the client and CCMExec service
ClientIDManagerStartUp.log creates and maintains the client's GUID
ClientLocation.log determines the assigned ConfigMgr site
CMRcService.log ConfigMgr Remote Control Service
ContentTransferManager.log controls BITS or SMB download of ConfigMgr packages
DataTransferService.log monitors all package downloads
dism.log monitors dism.exe process during OSD (e.g. driver injection)
EndpointProtectionAgent.log System Center Endpoint Protection is now integrated into ConfigMgr 2012 and this is its log
ExecMgr.log logs all deployed packages (old-style) and associated programs and policies
FileSystemFile.log log for software inventory and file collection
InventoryAgent.log logs DDRs (Discovery Data Records) for hardware and software
LocationServices.log finds Management Points, Distribution Points, Software Update Points
MaintenanceCoordinator.log is in control of all the ConfigMgr client's maintenance tasks
mtrmgr.log software metering
oobmgmt.log Out of Band management, for internet-based clients
PolicyAgent.log requests policies assigned to machine or user

PolicyAgentProvider.log

 monitors any changes to policies
PolicyEvaluator.log keeps track of new policies
pwrmgmt.log monitors power management activities on the client
RebootCoordinator.log collects information about reboots after software update installations
ScanAgent.log scans the client for need of software updates
SCClient_%domain%@%user%1.log Software Center Client for a specific domain and user, deployments will show up in here
Scheduler.log records scheduled ConfigMgr tasks
SCNotify_%domain%@%user%1.log Software Center Client for a specific domain and user, logs notifications regarding deployments
ServiceWindowManager.log monitors existing service windows for the client in which for example software is allowed to be installed
smscliui.log records usage of ConfigMgr UI in system panel
smssha.log log file for Network Access Protection Agent
smsts.log Task Sequence log
SoftwareCenterSystemTasks.log logs Software Center's process (startup, end)
StateMessage.log sends software update states to MP
StatusAgent.log logs events created by ConfigMgr Agent components
SWMTRReportGen.log generates usage data report
TSAgent.log logs the process before a TaskSequence starts up, e.g. download of policies
UpdatesDeployment.log shows information regarding Software Updates, if for example updates are enforced or assigned
UserAffinity.log new model of "User Device Affinity" (UDA), checks if there is an existing UDA for the machine or creates/sends a new UDA to the MP


  • Edited by Travis Cordes Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:45 PM edit.

Reply:

First, these are well documented on TechNet at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427342.aspx

Second, these are *not* located in \Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs. The list above is for client side logs. Many server side logs are located in \Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs but not all are and client side logs are located in \windows\ccm\logs by default.

Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys


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Capturing and tracking Issues related to Project tasks in MS Projects

I am currently working with a client on a Project management process improvement initiative.

The client is a project management firm providing outsourced project management services for mostly construction related projects. They exploring the possibility of automating their project reporting activities using MS Project.

One of the key requirements is to be able to Track Task related issues within MS Project:

Issues relating to a particular task could extend for weeks, they want to be able to enter update on the particular issue on a weekly basis and have each update saved within MS Project database for future tracking and record keeping.

I would appreciate contributions from any one who as ever worked on any Project customization initiative such as this as well as any recommendations as to alternative solutions to achieve this requirement.

Looking forward to all your contributions. Thanks


Reply:

emmanwill,

If the main goal is to keep a running narrative of issues for each task, the Notes field is ready made for that type of information. If you need to track other types of information, more insight on exactly what that information is, would help us make a recommendation. For example, Project has several fields designed to track progress/changes to the original plan.

If you are considering Project Server, I believe there is even more functionality for reporting, but since I don't use Project Server I'll let someone else expand on that.

Hope this helps.

John


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Reply:

Just to add on to John's response, if you have Project Server, then  the Project Site already has inbuilt list for Issue Tracking.

If you do not have Project Server, you could

1) create a issue tracker template in Excel, that can be used by each project

2) Place the issue tracker for the project in a shared location like a network drive

3) Use the "HYPERLINK" field in MS Project, to link to the Excel File. 

There are several other ways, dpeneding upon the collabaration tools you have in place, but this is what comes to mind right now.

Cheers,

Prasanna Adavi, Project MVP

Blog:   Podcast:    Twitter:    LinkedIn:   


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Reply:
Thank you John for the advise...

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Reply:
Thanks a lot Prasanna for the guide...I agree that the requirement is best resolved in Project Server, but I was looking for solution for a non Project server environment. Your recommendation to use excel as an issue tracker provides a simple to implement alternative. Thanks again...

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Reply:

emmanwill,

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. If either or both responses answered your question or were at least helpful, please consider marking those responses accordingly.

John


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Reply:

If they have a SharePoint team site available, then you could use Project Pro synced to a Task List. The Issue list could then use a lookup field to link to the SharePoint task on the site itself. Not sure if this would meet your needs but it could work in certain context.

Treb Gatte, Project MVP | Blog | Twitter


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Is Biztalk server 2013 will support Oracle database 12c?

Hi,

Can anyone suggest me whether Biztalk 2013 will support Oracle 12c?

  • Changed type Narasaiah Wednesday, April 29, 2015 5:59 AM

Reply:

Hi,

This is currently not supported.

  • Supported server versions: Oracle database version 11.2, Oracle database version 11.1, Oracle database version 10.2
  • Supported client versions: Oracle Data Access Components for Oracle Client 11.2.0.1

See BizTalk Adapter Pack 2013 and 2013R2 Help for more details:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38170

Best regards,

Kjetil


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Excel 2013 - Undo PivotChart changes connected to Powerpivot Datamodel is cutting off datasource name last digit when have more than 10 charts

Can you confirm its a bug in Excel 2013?

- Create some tables and add them to the data model (powerpivot).

- Create more than 10 PivotCharts connecting directly to the powerpivot (ThisWorkBookDataModel)

- Go to the last Chart created that is connected to the Datamodel (i.e Datasource = PivotChartTable10)

- Add or remove any field

- Click UNDO or CTRL-Z

- Right click the Chart you changed->Select Data and check the "Chart Data Range". You will see that the Data Source changed from:

PivotChartTable10

to

PivotChartTable1

I tried that on larger sheet and got same results. i.e changed a chart that was linked to PivotChartTable55 and it renamed to PivotChartTable5 breaking all the fields.

Thanks,

1



  • Edited by nikita021 Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:38 PM
  • Moved by Bill_Stewart Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:56 PM Off-topic

Reply:
Use group policy. Then you don't need a script.

-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:
This is actually a great use case for group policy. There is no need to write or run a script. Just set the needed account name in a GPO.

-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:
You should also not be using VBScript. PowerShell has the better support for managing VMs and Windows.  Don't waste too much time on learning an obsolete script language.

\_(ツ)_/


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Identifying files from 10 of the same camera

Hello,

I am a huge novice when it comes to scripts or id.txt files. 

I am trying to create a script that can uniquely I.D. all cameras even though they are the same. 

Is there some sort of script I can write to an S.D. card so that when I import photos from the camera to the USB, the computer automatically knows which camera is which.

This way it would prevent duplications and errors from occurring.

Thanks

  • Changed type Progenez Tuesday, June 9, 2015 5:09 PM Need to use in Nikon forum

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Just put names on your SD cards.

Each photo is also tagged with the camera ID.  You can use almost any photo editing/managing tool to see the tags, sort filter, etc.

Scripting is not the answer here.

Not that nearly all cameras can be set to add a prefix to all photos.  You can set each camera differently.

If you post your issues in a digital camera forum others there will show you how to use a digital camera effectively.

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I am trying to import all of the files into the same folder, which populate as a specific subfolder with the unique I.D . Essentially I want to transfer all photos from each camera and it automatically names the folders for each camera.

Also the camera ID is encrypted. There is no unique i.d. on the EXIF information.

  • Edited by Progenez Tuesday, June 9, 2015 2:22 PM

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Then set the camera to generate a camera specific folder name.  Post questions about how to do this in the forum for you camera.  For Nikon 3200-5700 it is on the setup menu.

We usually have two choices.  A specific name or a date.

Nikon allows 5 characters and then names all folders as 100CAM01,101CAM01,102CAM1 up to 999CAM01,

You can set the 5 digits. and all current folders will be renamed on the SD card. Most cameras follow similar conventions.  My SONY

Folders on very old cameras may not be able to be renamed.

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I tried that folder option and it automatically defaults back to 100NIKON if I change it anywhere from 100-999NIKON. 

If I can write something to the SD card so that when I plug the camera into the computer, it automatically recognizes that SD as a specific I.D. and automatically transfers the images to a specific folder.


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Change the label.  Like I said. This is a scripting forum. You want to post in the NIKON form to get instructions on how to set the folder correctly.

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I just set the folder on my NIKON and it works just fine.   DO not reformat or erase or it will go back.

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